ENGL 2323.01 Spring 2012 - Mullinax
Course Calendar All readings can be found in your Norton Anthology textbook. Wednesday, January 18: First class day Introductions Syllabus Blackboard Log in, update your email address, and familiarize yourself with the site. Friday, January 20: Introductory Notes and Romanticism
Monday, January 23: Romanticism Continued
Wednesday, January 25: Robert Burns p. 129-31 “Green grow the rashes” p. 131-2 “To a Mouse” p. 135-6 “To a Louse” p. 136-7 “Auld Lang Syne” p. 137-8
Friday, January 27: William Blake p. 76-9 From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction” p. 81-2 “The Lamb” p. 83-4 “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 85 “Infant Joy” p. 87 From Songs of Experience: “Introduction” p. 87-8 “The Tyger” p. 92-3 “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 90 “Infant Sorrow” p. 95
Friday, February 3: Coleridge Continued… “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” p. 428-30 “Kubla Khan” p. 446-8 “The Pains of Sleep” p. 469-70 “Epitaph” p. 473 Thomas DeQuincey p. 554-6 From The Pains of Opium [Opium Reveries and Dreams] p. 560-9
Monday, February 6: George Gordon (Lord Byron) p. 607-11 http://www.articlemyriad.com/poetry-byron-nature-genre/ “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” p. 611-2 “She Walks in Beauty” p. 612 This is one of the most famous poems ever written. It is known world wide. “When we two parted” p. 613-4
Wednesday, February 8: Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 741-4 “Mutability” p. 744 The title of the poem literally means the ability to change and transform. Think about that as you read it. “To Wordsworth” p. 744-5 “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” p. 766-8 http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section1.html “Ozymandias” p. 768 Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great who was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section2.rhtml Wordsworth and Coleridge Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Monday, February 13: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley p. 955-8 From The Last Man p. 958-61 The Mortal Immortal p. 961-70 Romaniticism Exam Review
Wednesday, February 15: Romantic Period Exam
Friday, February 17: The Victorian Period
Monday, February 20: John Stuart Mill p. 1043-4 From “On Liberty” p. 1051-60 Autobiograph. Chapter 5 p. 1070-7
Wednesday, February 22: John Ruskin p. 1317-20 From Of the Pathetic Fallacy p. 1322-4 From The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture p. 1324-34
Friday, February 24: Alfred Lord Tennyson p. 1109-12 “Ulysses” p. 1123-5 “The Charge of the Light Brigade” p. 1188-9 From Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur p. 1201-11
Monday, February 27: Thomas Henry Huxley p. 1427-9 From Science and Culture p. 1429-35 From Agnosticism and Christianity p. 1436-9 1st Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, February 29: Matthew Arnold p. 1350-4 “The Buried Life” p. 1356-8 “Dover Beach” p. 1368-9
Friday, March 2: Charles Dickens p. 1236-9 A Visit to Newgate p. 1239-48
Monday, March 5: Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 1077-9 “The Cry of the Children” p. 1079-82 From Sonnets of the Portuguese p. 1084-5 “Mother and Poet” p. 1106-9
Wednesday, March 7: Robert Browning p. 1248-52 “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” p. 1253-5 “My Last Duchess” p. 1255-6 “Abt Vogler” p. 1303-5
Friday, March 9: Gerard Manley Hopkins p. 1513-6 “The Windhover” p. 1518 “Pied Beauty” p. 1518 Oscar Wilde p. 1686-7 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray p. 1697-8
Monday, March 12: SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 14: SPRING BREAK
Friday, March 16: SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 19: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I p. 1698-1713
Wednesday, March 21: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II p. 1713-1731
Friday, March 23: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III p. 1731-1740
Monday, March 26: Rudyard Kipling p. 1793-4 “The White Man’s Burden” p. 1821-2 Victorian Exam Review
Wednesday, March 28: Victorian Period Exam
Friday, March 30: Introduction to the Modern Period
Monday, April 2: Thomas Hardy p. 1851-2 “Hap” p. 1868-9 “Neutral Tones” p. 1869 “The Convergence of the Twain” p. 1878-9 “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” p. 1879-80 “He Never Expected Much” p. 1884-5 Earnest Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, April 4: Rupert Brooke p. 1955 “The Soldier” p. 1955-6 Siegfried Sassoon p. 1960 “They” p. 1960-1 Isaac Rosenberg p. 1966-7 “Break of Day in the Trenches” p. 1967
Friday, April 6: EASTER BREAK
Monday, April 9: William Butler Yeats p. 2019-22 “The Stolen Child” p. 2022-3 “Adam’s Curse” p. 2028 “The Second Coming” p. 2036-7 “Leda and the Swan” p. 2039
Wednesday, April 11: Modernist Manifestos p. 1996-8 T. E. Hulme and From Romanticism and Classicism p. 1998-2003
S. Eliot p. 2286-9
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 2289-93 The Wasteland, I. The Burial of the Dead p. 2294-8
Friday, April 13: F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound p. 2003-7 An Imagist Cluster p. 2007-9 Blast p. 2009-15
Monday, April 16: James Joyce & Ulysses Intro p. 2163-6 From Ulysses [Proteus] p. 2200-2213 2nd Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Wednesday, April 18: D. H. Lawrence p. 2243-5 “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” p. 2258-69 Friday, April 20: Mina Loy p. 2015-6 Feminist Manifesto p. 2016-9 Virginia Woolf p. 2080-2 A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 3 p. 2113-22
Monday, April 23: Katherine Mansfield p. 2332-3 “The Garden Party” p. 2346-56
Wednesday, April 25: Samuel Beckett p. 2393-4 Endgame p. 2394-2411 (to the end of Hamm’s monologue)
Friday, April 27: Endgame p. 2411 (start @ Nagg)-2420
Monday, April 30: Dylan Thomas p. 2444-5 “Fern Hill” p. 2448-50 “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” p. 2450 Ted Hughes p. 2594 “Relic” p. 2595 “Pike” p. 2595-6 “Out” p. 2597-8 “Theology” p. 2598 Endgame Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, May 2: Salman Rushdie p. 2852-3 “The Prophet’s Hair” p. 2854-63 Derek Walcott p. 2586-7 From Omeros p. 2591-3
Friday, May 4: Final Exam Review
Final Exam: Wednesday, May 9th from 10:15am to 12:15pm.
Spring 2012 - Mullinax
Course Calendar
All readings can be found in your Norton Anthology textbook.
Wednesday, January 18:
First class day
Introductions
Syllabus
Blackboard
Log in, update your email address, and familiarize yourself with the site.
Friday, January 20:
Introductory Notes and Romanticism
Monday, January 23:
Romanticism Continued
Wednesday, January 25:
Robert Burns p. 129-31
“Green grow the rashes” p. 131-2
“To a Mouse” p. 135-6
“To a Louse” p. 136-7
“Auld Lang Syne” p. 137-8
Friday, January 27:
William Blake p. 76-9
From Songs of Innocence:
“Introduction” p. 81-2
“The Lamb” p. 83-4
“The Chimney Sweeper” p. 85
“Infant Joy” p. 87
From Songs of Experience:
“Introduction” p. 87-8
“The Tyger” p. 92-3
“The Chimney Sweeper” p. 90
“Infant Sorrow” p. 95
Monday, January 30:
William Wordsworth p. 243-5
“Simon Lee” p. 245-8
“We Are Seven” p. 248-9
“Michael” p. 292-301
“I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” p. 305-6
Wednesday, February 1:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 424-6
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner p. 430-46
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL872A8E6558A6AD71 Special Thanks to Lucas for this.
Friday, February 3:
Coleridge Continued…
“This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” p. 428-30
“Kubla Khan” p. 446-8
“The Pains of Sleep” p. 469-70
“Epitaph” p. 473
Thomas DeQuincey p. 554-6
From The Pains of Opium [Opium Reveries and Dreams] p. 560-9
Monday, February 6:
George Gordon (Lord Byron) p. 607-11
http://www.articlemyriad.com/poetry-byron-nature-genre/
“Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” p. 611-2
“She Walks in Beauty” p. 612 This is one of the most famous poems ever written. It is known world wide.
“When we two parted” p. 613-4
Wednesday, February 8:
Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 741-4
“Mutability” p. 744 The title of the poem literally means the ability to change and transform. Think about that as you read it.
“To Wordsworth” p. 744-5
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” p. 766-8
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section1.html
“Ozymandias” p. 768 Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great who was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 19th dynasty.
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section2.rhtml
Wordsworth and Coleridge Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Friday, February 10:
John Keats p. 878-80
“A thing of beauty” p. 884-5
“When I have fears that I may cease to be” p. 888
“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” p. 899-900
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/belle.html
Mary Wollstonecraft p. 167-70
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 4 p. 189-95
http://www.enotes.com/vindication-rights-woman-criticism/vindication-rights-woman-mary-wollstonecraft
Monday, February 13:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley p. 955-8
From The Last Man p. 958-61
The Mortal Immortal p. 961-70
Romaniticism Exam Review
Wednesday, February 15:
Romantic Period Exam
Friday, February 17:
The Victorian Period
Monday, February 20:
John Stuart Mill p. 1043-4
From “On Liberty” p. 1051-60
Autobiograph. Chapter 5 p. 1070-7
Wednesday, February 22:
John Ruskin p. 1317-20
From Of the Pathetic Fallacy p. 1322-4
From The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture p. 1324-34
Friday, February 24:
Alfred Lord Tennyson p. 1109-12
“Ulysses” p. 1123-5
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” p. 1188-9
From Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur p. 1201-11
Monday, February 27:
Thomas Henry Huxley p. 1427-9
From Science and Culture p. 1429-35
From Agnosticism and Christianity p. 1436-9
1st Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, February 29:
Matthew Arnold p. 1350-4
“The Buried Life” p. 1356-8
“Dover Beach” p. 1368-9
Friday, March 2:
Charles Dickens p. 1236-9
A Visit to Newgate p. 1239-48
Monday, March 5:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 1077-9
“The Cry of the Children” p. 1079-82
From Sonnets of the Portuguese p. 1084-5
“Mother and Poet” p. 1106-9
Wednesday, March 7:
Robert Browning p. 1248-52
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” p. 1253-5
“My Last Duchess” p. 1255-6
“Abt Vogler” p. 1303-5
Friday, March 9:
Gerard Manley Hopkins p. 1513-6
“The Windhover” p. 1518
“Pied Beauty” p. 1518
Oscar Wilde p. 1686-7
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray p. 1697-8
Monday, March 12:
SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 14:
SPRING BREAK
Friday, March 16:
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 19:
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I p. 1698-1713
Wednesday, March 21:
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II p. 1713-1731
Friday, March 23:
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III p. 1731-1740
Monday, March 26:
Rudyard Kipling p. 1793-4
“The White Man’s Burden” p. 1821-2
Victorian Exam Review
Wednesday, March 28:
Victorian Period Exam
Friday, March 30:
Introduction to the Modern Period
Monday, April 2:
Thomas Hardy p. 1851-2
“Hap” p. 1868-9
“Neutral Tones” p. 1869
“The Convergence of the Twain” p. 1878-9
“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” p. 1879-80
“He Never Expected Much” p. 1884-5
Earnest Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, April 4:
Rupert Brooke p. 1955
“The Soldier” p. 1955-6
Siegfried Sassoon p. 1960
“They” p. 1960-1
Isaac Rosenberg p. 1966-7
“Break of Day in the Trenches” p. 1967
Friday, April 6:
EASTER BREAK
Monday, April 9:
William Butler Yeats p. 2019-22
“The Stolen Child” p. 2022-3
“Adam’s Curse” p. 2028
“The Second Coming” p. 2036-7
“Leda and the Swan” p. 2039
Wednesday, April 11:
Modernist Manifestos p. 1996-8
T. E. Hulme and From Romanticism and Classicism p. 1998-2003
- S. Eliot p. 2286-9
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 2289-93The Wasteland, I. The Burial of the Dead p. 2294-8
Friday, April 13:
F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound p. 2003-7
An Imagist Cluster p. 2007-9
Blast p. 2009-15
Monday, April 16:
James Joyce & Ulysses Intro p. 2163-6
From Ulysses [Proteus] p. 2200-2213
2nd Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Wednesday, April 18:
D. H. Lawrence p. 2243-5
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” p. 2258-69
Friday, April 20:
Mina Loy p. 2015-6
Feminist Manifesto p. 2016-9
Virginia Woolf p. 2080-2
A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 3 p. 2113-22
Monday, April 23:
Katherine Mansfield p. 2332-3
“The Garden Party” p. 2346-56
Wednesday, April 25:
Samuel Beckett p. 2393-4
Endgame p. 2394-2411 (to the end of Hamm’s monologue)
Friday, April 27:
Endgame p. 2411 (start @ Nagg)-2420
Monday, April 30:
Dylan Thomas p. 2444-5
“Fern Hill” p. 2448-50
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” p. 2450
Ted Hughes p. 2594
“Relic” p. 2595
“Pike” p. 2595-6
“Out” p. 2597-8
“Theology” p. 2598
Endgame Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm
Wednesday, May 2:
Salman Rushdie p. 2852-3
“The Prophet’s Hair” p. 2854-63
Derek Walcott p. 2586-7
From Omeros p. 2591-3
Friday, May 4:
Final Exam Review
Final Exam: Wednesday, May 9th from 10:15am to 12:15pm.